Dear Mr. Pehme and Fellow Travelers, Like all good Lilliputian citizens, I think we shouldn't slip silently by a great motion. At the bottom of a great motion,...
... Yes, yes, this kind of thing is very good and Sachs and Co. are worthy of study at a place like St. John's. No one is denying Aristotle's greatness or that...
... Knowing nothing is quite the feat as to know "no-thing" might be construed as knowing everything. In any event, ignorance is impossible, while knowledge is...
I wasn't trying to jam an interpretation down on anyone with my meanderings, but let me beg off with two small recalcitrant points: One cannot understand the...
... This statement is true in its way but it is also quite misleading. For example, how aristotlean physics underpin aristotlean psychology is hardly clear. I...
... --Didn't seem to me like you were trying to do that at all. ... --I guess my main point is that it is not so clear what this going all the way entails. ......
... Not to mention the fact that there is no homogeneous entity that goes by "the ancients" anymore than their is a single cosmological, ethical, political,...
... [snip] Well, I would like to point out that teleology is only one small part of the ancient cosmological understanding. It is not the only one, and I might...
... It's not all that daddocky. What is called "ancient" is a tradition, part of the modern tradition now. It is solely that, and what Strauss is attempting to...
... --Ray wrote: If God revealed himself to you wouldn't you be able to say that you knew God? Therefore isn't God knowable? One may not be able to logically...
... way, ... some ... the ... According to this, moderns are against teleology, but Darwinism, which is now orthodox in modernity, is "telic thinking"? I think...
It's important to consider who travels today and what sites they examine. I think that, if Aristotle were alive today, he wouldn't quite act as Gulliver did in...
... A reflection on Benardete, in the context of our discussions about Straussians and what they really think; and the anti-Strauss articles in the press here...
... foreign to ... they ... very ... goes by ... ethical, ... thought called ... with the ... smells ... tradition, part of ... attempting ... truly ... is...
... His addressing man, is not merely known through traditions going back to the remote past and therefore now 'merely believed,' but is genuinely known...
Andrew Lancaster writes: [snip] ... "Good" arguments? Strauss is a philosopher, not a rhetorician. ... I have no idea what you mean that the moderns take...
... --What else would you call them? Maybe a humanist? Does the source of human ends make no difference? Whether we view man himself as a natural being, or...
... teloi ... source ... a ... ability ... I suppose so. I suppose that if human nature existed before humans, then human ends existed before their ends, and...
... Strauss is also rather focussed on the canon of political theory, which renders Andrew's remark rather peculiar (apart from the obvious meprise of what my...
... Well, I've been obscure all my life. Certainly, I think I am worthy of homage, but not necessarily by a Schmitt. However, perhaps obscurity in this case...
... That sounds about right. My point was that, like most sensible folks, Strauss looks mostly to the canon to seek what he wants to find, and not to the...
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David North
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Dec 3, 2003 12:44 am
Thank you. Here is another; Pangle on Strauss at the AEI on December 1 - http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.19540/news_detail.asp David North....
--Why not just, "if there is a human nature?" When we say that man is infinitely malleable, that there are no limits to man's development or what man might...
Dear Brett, Did Sachs translate Aristotle's Ethics and do you recommend his translation? Thanks, Gary ... From: Brett Dutton Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003...
Dear Icastes, "Ignorance is impossible"? That seems rather unlikely to me. Can you elaborate? Gary ... From: Icastes Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:11 AM ...
Dear Gary, Absolutely! Joe Sachs - "Aristotle _Nicomachean Ethics_ Focus Publishing MA 2002. He has also translated "On the Soul" with a short (excellent) ...
